Multiple biogeographical barriers identified across the monsoon tropics of northern Australia: Phylogeographic analysis of the brachyotis group of rock-wallabies

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2254-2269

  Potter, Sally ^a,b   Eldridge, Mark D B ^b,c   Taggart, David A ^a   Cooper, Steven J B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

brachyotis; northern Australia; phylogeography; Plio Pleistocene; rock wallaby; vicariance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; KANGAROO; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MACROPODIDAE; MITOCHONDRIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

PETROGALE; PETROGALE BRACHYOTIS; PETROGALE BURBIDGEI;

EID: 84860656237     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05523.x     Document Type: Article

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